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❤️ Love and open-mindedness! / Gay pride! 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ / Film enjoyer!🍿🎥✮⋆˙
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Vilko dantų karoliai (1997) is a striking Lithuanian film by Algimantas Puipa. It blends folklore, memory, and the mysteries of adolescence into a haunting, poetic narrative. Its distinctive visual style and sensual coming-of-age scenes make it a work that deserves greater recognition.
October 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
realstree.bsky.social
Eu Me Lembro (2005) is a beautiful Brazilian film by Edgard Navarro. It captures the transition from childhood to adulthood with sensitivity and nostalgia, portraying memory and sexual desire in a deeply sensual way. It deserves more recognition for its evocative storytelling and atmosphere.
October 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
realstree.bsky.social
Tendres Cousines (1980) is a beautiful French film by David Hamilton. It portrays innocence in its purest form and depicts youthful sexual desire as something inevitable. It is undoubtedly an important film that deserves more recognition for its captivating scenes.
October 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Du Er Ikke Alene (1978) was an important film for its time, as it portrayed a same-sex relationship in a human way, which was groundbreaking back then. The film’s central message is that love and emotional connection should be treated with understanding and respect, regardless of gender.
October 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Great review of Du Er Ikke Alene (1978) videolibrarian.com/reviews/clas...
You Are Not Alone (Du Er Ikke Alene)
It's hard to imagine a film like You Are Not Alone, in which same-sex relationships and collective action among underage youth are presented as forces for good, emerging from the comparatively repress...
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October 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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I reviewed You Are Not Alone, a Danish film from 1978 in which neither collective action nor young gay love is demonized. There's little writing about the film online. I enjoyed it, and hope this release leads to more. On Altered Innocence. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

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You Are Not Alone (Du Er Ikke Alene) by Kathy Fennessy March 11, 2025 4:50 PM You Are Not Alone (Du Er Ikke Alene) Rating: 3.5 of 5 Production Company Altered Innocence Genre Social Issues, Drama, World Cinema Rating Not Rated Release Date September 10, 2024 Duration 94 minutes It's hard to imagine a film like You Are Not Alone, in which same-sex relationships and collective action among underage youth are presented as forces for good, emerging from the comparatively repressive United States of 1978. Danish filmmakers Ernst Johansen and Lasse Nielsen, alongside cowriter and psychologist Bent Peterson, center their coming-of-age story on two boys who are much like youth throughout the West in the late-1970s; high-spirited kids into swearing, drinking, rock music--dorm room pinups include David Bowie, Suzi Quatro, and ABBA--and R-rated movies. Kim (newcomer Peter Bjerg), a slight 12-year-old with a blond Prince Valiant haircut, attends a conventional school and 15-year-old Bo (Anders Agensø), a tall boy with curly hair, goes to a continuation or alternative boarding school where Kim's stern, white-haired father, Forstander (Ove Sprogøe), serves as headmaster. Forstander discourages his youngest son from hanging out with Bo, who is presumably up to no good, except the naïve, if plucky Kim will not be deterred. Advertise with Video Librarian When Kim isn't at school or piano lessons, he hangs out with Bo and his teenage friends, most of whom are just learning about sex, whether through men's magazines or tentative encounters with local girls. Some are also having a hard time being away from home or dealing with injuries from playing too hard. When the headmaster overreacts to one kid's inappropriate decorating project, the student body goes on strike in the first of two actions in which boys join together to resist an oppressive force. As Kim and Bo get to know each other, it's clear that the older boy is attracted to the younger. It's less clear if the feeling is mutual until Kim puts an arm around Bo one night while socializing with his schoolmates. Bo removes it in a sign of protectiveness among peers who call each other "fag" as a putdown, though he comes to find that their feelings aren't isolated. If the nudity in the film is mostly of the innocent kind, like a shower sequence that ends with Kim covered in bubbles, the tender ages of the actors led the film to be restricted to Danish viewers aged 13 and older. The restriction would eventually be lifted. One way or the other, the film's message about freedom of expression shines through. As Danish singer Sebastian's theme song would have it, "You are not alone, someone follows you, and the entire time, he is like you." Though the ending feels more like wish fulfillment than reality, it's still refreshing to see a film from the 1970s in which gay characters suffer no ill consequences. Tik Tok, Boom Documentary You Are Not Alone was the third and best known entry in a youth trilogy with Leave Us Alone and Could We Maybe. In its portrait of teen rebellion, the film shares connective tissue with Jonathan Kaplan's 1979 drama Over the Edge in which Colorado kids take a stand against conformity, though the same-sex relationship makes it unique among teen films of the era.
March 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM